I. D. Douglas Quotes

There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.

Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on

Even if you can't just snap your fingers and make a dream come true, you can travel in the direction of your dream, every single day and you can shorten the distance between the two of you.

If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think of others, to do for others. You can always find something to be grateful for.

Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.

A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

Isnt it the very last thing we feel grateful for - having happened? You needn't have happened. But you did happen.

Our goal should be minimum standardization of human behavior.

Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

JavaScript is the only language that I'm aware of that people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it.

Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.

Have you ever noticed the softness of a kitten's feet? - they are like raspberries to hold in one's hand.

The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed.

Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.

No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.

There aren't many things as therapeutic as smiles and laughter. Whenever you look at things in a lighter vein, it shows that your heart is in the right place.

Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk.

Nothing wastes more energy than worrying. The longer one carries a problem, the heavier it becomes. Don't take life too seriously. Live a life full of serenity, not of regrets.

Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.

The biggest liar in the world is They Say.

When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.

A recession is when your neighbour has to tighten his belt. A depression is when you have to tighten your own belt. And a panic is when you have no belt to tighten and your pants fall down.

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.

Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.

It takes being an active participant in your life. But you are in the driver's seat, and you can determine the direction you want tomorrow to go in.

Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku.

I think the greatest of all human virtues is loyalty. It embraces all the best of the human character: courage, faith, love and charity.

The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.

The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.

. . . all meaning comes from analogies.

I'm up to here with cool, okay? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.

I came out of Bataan and I shall return!

In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.

However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.

You can never represent yourself totally .... to seek self -knowledge is to embark on a journey which ... will always be incomplete, cannot be charted on a map, will never halt, cannot be described.

I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.

Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place.

Out there is nothing but possibilities.

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.

Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.